"It's quite a shake-up trying to settle down again." "You were in France, then ?" "Oh, yes; but I didn't get up to the front much--only two or three times, and then just for a day or so.

I was in the transportation service." "You were an officer, of course." "Yes," he said.

"They let me play I was a major." "I guessed a major," she said.

"You'd always be pretty grand, of course." Russell was amused.

"Well, you see," he informed her, "as it happened, we had at least several other majors in our army.